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Microsoft has announced new contact management features for its Outlook web app. The latest update brings a new self-updating contact feature that helps enterprise users to keep their contacts updated automatically with shared information from the organization directory. “All the new contacts you add from the people card of a person belonging to your organization…

Microsoft is getting ready to end support for Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online. The Exchange team has warned customers that support for this feature will be removed from the service in September 2023. Client Access Rules allow IT admins to control access to their Exchange servers based on client properties or client access…

Back in May, Microsoft started testing a beta version of the revamped Outlook desktop app for Windows (Codenamed “Project Monarch”). The company announced this morning that all Office Insiders enrolled in the Current Channel (Preview) can now opt-in to test the new One Outlook app. The new Outlook client is a web-powered application that is…

Windows 11 Smart App Control is a new feature that Microsoft introduced in Windows 11 version 22H2, also known as the 2022 Update. Smart App Control is a system-level feature that can help to protect your Windows 11 PC by blocking malicious and untrusted apps. In this article, we’ll explain how Windows 11 Smart App…

Russell Smith, Editorial Director of Petri, talks to Maurice Cote from Devolutions about the difference between cybersecurity and IT security and what it means for IT departments.

Microsoft has announced Azure AD-based single sign-on and passwordless authentication support for Azure Virtual Desktop. These new capabilities are currently available in public preview for Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2022 session hosts. Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud-based virtualization solution that allows organizations to deploy desktops and applications for end users. It…

Microsoft has unveiled a recent cybersecurity attack that allowed the threat actors to compromise Exchange Online. The attacker abused unsecured administrator accounts to gain access to the cloud tenants and created malicious OAuth applications to reconfigure the victim’s email server to send phishing emails. OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol that enables users to share…

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

Microsoft is planning to make it easier for users to catch up on important Activity feed notifications in Teams. The Microsoft Teams desktop app is getting a new toggle button that will let users view all unread items in the Activity feed with a single click. The Activity feed in Microsoft Teams allows users to…

Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue with the recent Windows updates, which prevents users from copying or moving files/shortcuts via Group Policy Object (GPO). The issue is caused after installing the September Patch Tuesday updates, and it affects all supported versions of Windows. Earlier this month, several IT admins complained that the GPO could no…

The Attribute Editor in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a hidden tab that contains a list of all attributes and their values. This tab lets IT pros view and edit almost every attribute of every object in Active Directory. In this guide, I’ll show you how to view the Attribute Editor in Active…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its plans to add support for Loop components to its Outlook email client. Loop components are already available in Microsoft Teams and the Outlook web app, and Microsoft has now started rolling out this feature in preview to Outlook for Windows. Microsoft announced the Loop application last year to support…